The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss some results from an ethnographic research on Argentinian Mbya communities focused on representations and practices related to childrearing and development during the first stages of life course.
Firstly, I describe…

Se analizó el perfil de uso de los medicamentos utilizados en los pacientes adultos mayores (65 años o más) atendidos en los Centros de Salud, urbanos, de la Provincia de Santiago, Chile, durante los meses de junio a octubre de…

Se actualizan los conocimientos sobre botánica, etnofarmacognosia, cultivo, y en particular los avances en el aislamiento de nuevos compuestos y sus aplicaciones
en la moderna farmacología de Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Zingiberaceae)., This paper is an updating of the present knowledge…

Entre las nuevas asignaturas comprendidas en los dos planes d e estudio (1990 y 1995) vigentes, correspondientes a la carrera de Farmacia de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, se encuentra "Introducción a la…

Se consideró de interés determinar la incidencia de ingreso hospitalario por incumplimiento de tratamiento entre los pacientes cardiovasculares y portadores de una enfermedad respiratoria internados en los servicios de medicina de cinco hospitales de la Región Metropolitana, Chile. Diariamente y…

The role of communities associated to a substrate as fundamental components of an aquatic system has been recognized by many authors. Although periphyton has been considered of great importance in shallow lakes, its inclusion in different ecological models has been…

This paper addresses the problem of contour line extraction from scanned topographic maps in poor condition. A novel method is developed, using knowledge of cartography and graphics to extract contours by removing other layers which overlay the contours, and reconstructing…

Current reasoning systems attempt to model an agent's knowledge and interaction with its environment in a symbolic manner. This environment, its world is generally dynamic and changing due to natural evolution or the actions of other agents that are a…

La Plata National University is making a great effort to support and encourage scientific, technologic and artistic research and innovation, maintaining its quality, as well as the development and knowledge transference that benefit society and generate new scientific, technologic and…

This paper aims to clarify an economic mechanism behind the growing dichotomy between geo-economics and the borderless global knowledge economy. The proposed hypothesis is that geo-economic fault-lines, which are the product of the past prejudices of racial, linguistic, and cultural…